After multiple complaints
from disgruntled fans who attended the Southeast Misouri
football game Sept. 7, university officials went back to the
drawing board to continue to
find ways to improve gameday
parking.
Officials were able to reflect
on the feedback received from
displeased fans and students
who attended the first home
game against Southeast Missouri. Isaac Astill, director of
Parking and Transportation
Services, played a vital role in
creating this policy and the reformations.
The changes include, but
are not limited to:
ON-CAMPUS
•Additional signage has been
added to all parking areas.
•Additional staffing will be
on hand to help answer questions and direct fans to their
designated, on-campus parking
area.
•All gameday staff has received additional training and

education in preparation for
this weekend’s game.
•Gertrude Ford Boulevard
will remain open to thru-traffic
until 4:30 p.m.
•A shuttle bus lane has been
added to post-game traffic on
Coliseum Drive, Fraternity
Row and Taylor Road from
Highway 6 to the roundabout
to aid in the safety of those
parking at off-campus lots. All
other traffic will be one-way
off campus at the end of the
game in order to get as many
cars off campus as safely and
quickly as possible. Traffic will
be allowed to travel both ways
on Old Taylor Road after the
game between the roundabout
and University Avenue.
•All ADA parking is sold out
for this week’s game. Those requiring assistance to get to the
stadium may be dropped off on
Gertrude Ford Boulevard until
4:30 p.m. University officials
recommend using the off-campus lots and shuttles to most
conveniently get to VaughtHemingway Stadium.
•Patrons parking on campus
should provide their pass to the

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Students get on an OUT Bus Thursday night. OUT buses are used as gameday shuttles for football games.

security officers working the
campus entrances for verification to gain access to campus.

After seeing the success
of Everybody’s Tent at the
Southeastern Missouri football game, the Associated Student Body is bringing it back
this weekend for the Texas
A&M game and is expecting
former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott to
be among the attendees.
Everybody’s Tent was started this semester by ASB President Gregory Alston and current director of Everybody’s
Tent William Fowler. The
tent was created as a place
for people to go if they have
nowhere else to tailgate during the game or if they need
somewhere to cool off during
the day.
The tent will be directly in

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Semantic implications

front of the Student Union in
the grass close to the Walk of
Champions arch as it was last
time from 3:30-6:30 p.m.
The first Everybody’s Tent
was sponsored by the Office
of the Dean of Students and
the Center for Student Success
and First-Year Experience.
This weekend, however, it will
be sponsored by the Trent Lott
Leadership Institute and University and Public Events, according to Alston.
“I was very excited to hear
that Trent Lott is expected to
stop by Everybody’s Tent this
weekend,” Alston said. “He is
a great leader and representative of this university.”
Alston hopes to see a turnout as good as or better than
the last game when the tent
was visited by approximately

600 people.
Fowler is excited to host the
tent again this weekend and
expects an even larger crowd
than the first time. He said he
wants to lead by example and
treat each other with respect
and dignity.
“No matter who you are,
where you are from, what team
you are pulling for, you can expect to be welcomed as a valuable member of the Ole Miss
community when you visit the
ASB Everybody’s Tent.”
Fowler also encouraged
anybody with Twitter, Instagram or Facebook to post
their pictures in front of the
tent banner with the hashtag
#EverybodysTent so the ASB
and social media followers can
see how much of a success the
tent is.

Chloe and Zoie of University Avenue:
a tradition of Oxford

of language

Thoughts on moving

See Page 6

The stub will be removed from
the person’s pass upon entering
their designated, on-campus

Tailgaters in the Grove produced
more than 60 tons of waste during the first home football game at
Ole Miss in September, with only
a ton of recyclables collected by
the Green Grove Initiative.
The game against Southeast Missouri attracted many visitors to the
campus to experience its tailgating
tradition. Left behind after the celebration, however, was 67 tons of
waste that varied from leftovers to
utensils, with only about 1.5 percent material sorted into recyclables through the green bags given
by volunteers of the initiative.
This amount of waste amounts
to around nine small school buses
combined.
“It’s just that with the atmosphere, it’s a fun place to be, a cel-

ebration,” said Anne McCauley,
Office of Campus Sustainability
assistant director. “It’s a hard time
to cut through that and say, ‘Hey,
can you do something a little differently?’ But we are not giving
up.”
Approximately 489 tons of waste
were collected over the entire football season last year. The diversion
rate — how much trash is diverted
from landfills — was at 1 percent,
which McCauley described as really low.
The recycling program at Ole
Miss is managed by the Green
Grove Initiative, under McCauley’s office. The campaign started
in 2009, where only two tons of
recyclables were collected from
more than 350 tons of trash during the entire football season.
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In today’s society, we are encouraged to be politically correct. But what does this term
even mean? This phrase can
certainly be a tad bit ambiguous. Whether or not you know
exactly what this term refers
to, you know implicitly how to
abide by its implications (at least
some do).
All of this falls under the semantics feature of language
use. Semantics simply refers to
the meaning speakers derive
from words and sentences. Political correctness is encouraged
because of the semanticity of
the words that may be exact
synonyms to those they replace.
(After all, isn’t this all about synonyms?)

Along with semantics come
the perceptions that each speaker holds. The meanings one
person perceives from a phrase
or sentence may vastly differ
from another’s.
The denotation, or dictionary meaning, can start to detach itself from the way the
word is actually used, or the
connotation of the word. I cannot count the amount of times
I have heard “literally” used in
the wrong context. Even though
you and all your sorority sisters
think “literally” means “actually,” it indeed does not, though
in some cases “actually” can be
substituted for “literally” with
the meaning changing some.
The same can be said of
“random.” Speakers have taken
this word away from its dictionary meaning to mean “weird.”

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Speakers of a language determine what words mean without
much consideration for the dictionary.
Since people are the ones who
decide what something means,
aren’t the speakers of a language the same ones who determine if something is bad or taboo? Our society dictates what
is appropriate to say and what
is not, which is especially important in the South. Our culture
is steeped in manners and politeness with “yes, sir” and “no,
ma’am,” practically taught to
you at birth. We are encouraged
to use words that are politically
correct so as to not offend someone, but it goes without saying
that many do not abide by these
encouragements.
I believe the language we use
with people is so important here

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at our university with its rich history and its propensity to attract
controversy. With the amount
of diverse students here, it becomes monumentally important to use tolerant and more
politically correct language. We
should all strive to show tolerance through our language.
Though not everyone takes
the phrase “watch your words”
literally, much can be learned
through the way in which we
speak. The implications of our
words go far beyond the utterance of sounds and syllables.
The perception of listeners
must also be taken into consideration.
As a member of a community,
each person must take responsibility for the effects their words
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LANGUAGE,

COLUMN

Thoughts on moving forward
smhiggin@go.olemiss.edu

Much attention has been
given to The University of
Mississippi and the conflict
surrounding the disruption
of “The Laramie Project.”
Because of our troublesome
history, issues surrounding
differences — such as race or
sexual orientation — are always a sensitive topic at this
university. Although topics
of perceived or actual differences may be sensitive, it does
not mean we should shy away
from those conversations; instead, we should embrace the
opportunity to learn and grow
as a community.
“The Laramie Project” disruption is somewhat reminiscent of the Election Day
incident on our campus back
in November. The previous
year’s incident was about
race; this year the controversy
involves sexual orientation.
I draw these two parallels
not to equate the separate incidents — we may never know
specifically who said what,
where or when. I draw these
parallels to point to a deeper, but obvious, conclusion.
The University of Mississippi
needs to actively promote a
climate welcoming and accepting of differences. Those
differences include but are
not limited to race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation
and gender identity or expression. Equally as important as
action taken by the university
is that we as a student body
need to help create that climate.
Much of the frustration after “The Laramie Project”
disruption focused on blame
and the media. Students were
frustrated that our student
athletes were being blamed
instead of the larger audience. Many students were
also concerned that the me-

dia sensation was unfair —
had the incident happened on
any other campus, it wouldn’t
have made it in The New
York Times or on CNN. However, channeling frustration
on the previous two examples
distracts from the larger issue. The theater department
and members of the LGBTQ
community were hurt by the
incident, and some felt unwelcome on campus.
I, along with many members of the community, appreciated the open letter from
Chancellor Jones and Athletics Director Ross Bjork. It
outlined precisely the root of
the problem demonstrated by
some of our students: a lack
of civility, education and understanding. So what’s next?
We cannot let the conversation die. We as members of
the larger university community cannot sweep incidents
of controversy under the rug,
nor can we blame victims for

the resulting media attention.
Instead, we should look at
these incidents as opportunities to grow as people and as
a collective university family.
Before us today is an opportunity to learn more about
the LGBTQ community, the
unique obstacles they face
and their many contributions
to our campus and society. In
the future, I hope our university will be even more explicit
in statements of support for
LGBTQ students on campus.
I hope that as a campus we
can truly take our commitment to the Creed seriously.
As a public institution, we
are so far beyond tolerating
differences. We should not
simply just allow or permit
differences to exist. We should
accept and embrace differences. We should value differences and seek to learn about
students and faculty members
who may not look like us or
love like us.

I think “The Laramie Project” incident has made us
a stronger institution, but it
didn’t have to happen. It hurt
many members of the Ole
Miss family. That’s where the
attention should be focused.
Let us be proactive in our
response and dedicated to
making this university a more
accepting — not tolerant —
institution for students and
faculty of all walks of life.
Sean Higgins is a junior political science major from Brookings,
S.D.

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Fans fill the Grove before the game against Southeast Missouri in September.

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KayKay DeRossette, gameday
intern and recently elected Miss
Ole Miss, said that participating in
the campaign is the easiest way to
practice good stewardship of resources, as stated in the University
Creed.
“We don’t want to change the
culture of tailgating because
that’s like a strong tradition to Ole
Miss,” she said. “But we want to
make sure that we’re all using our
resources and doing it responsibly.”

The initiative relies greatly on its
volunteers for its success. During
the SEMO game, 73 students volunteered for one and a half to two
hours of handing out green recycling bags to different tents and
promoting and educating them
about recycling.
Recyclables include aluminum
cans, plastic bottles and solo cups.
Plastic bottles only include classification symbols one and two,
such as drinking bottles and milk
jugs. These numbers can usually
be found at the bottom and inside
the recycling logo of three arrows
in a cycle.
Tailgaters can leave these bags

in their tents for the volunteers
to collect. These are taken to the
Oxford Recycling Center for sorting. In the past game, sorting was
done twice, rather than just once,
because of the amount of recyclables.
Gameday intern Jillian Cowart
said the sorting poses a problem
when people are not aware of
what exactly to put in.
“You would be amazed in what
you find in recycling bags. Our
main problem in sorting is the
food and liquid in the bags,” she
said. “Last time, we found a pair
of shoes.”
McCauley said that the volun-

teer turnout has been good for the
first game. However, challenges
will surely take place in the coming Texas A&M game on Oct. 12.
“The people who come to
the Ole Miss games, they have
learned already from the first
game and they will be more familiar with how we do things,”
she said. “But then we’ll probably
have a lot more A&M fans than
we have Southeast Missouri fans,
so they don’t know the system.”
Home football games certainly
attract many people from different
places, not only to Ole Miss, but
also to Oxford, resulting in a waste
increase in the entire city.
“It has to do not only with the
football game in the stadium, but
in the Grove,” said Amberlyn Liles, assistant director for sanitation
and recycling in Oxford. “Our
businesses boom at that time, so
there’s more waste.”
An average of 160 tons of waste
is collected in Oxford-Lafayette
County on an ordinary day, which
is almost 60,000 tons of waste
every year if there are no home
games.
However, as far as the state of
Mississippi goes, Oxford is ahead
of the game when it comes to recycling, Liles said.
“We’re recycling household recyclables and we’re keeping leaves
and a lot of vegetation out of rubbish landfill by using erosion con-

trol,” she said.
From October 2012 to June
2013, the Oxford-Lafayette Recycling Center recycled around
800 tons, including the material
collected during gamedays, newspapers, mixed papers and cardboard. Ole Miss, in particular,
contributed more than 100 tons
of recyclables in this span of time.
“You break the loop when you
throw it away,” Liles said on how
trash is made into other products
once recycled. “Every soda can
that is recycled saves enough energy to run a television for three
hours.”
For Ole Miss, the Office of Campus Sustainability is working on
more programs to push the sustainability of the Grove, including
plans for “green certified” tents.
Though still in progress, this aims
to recognize tailgaters who are
willing to take a step forward after
recycling by actually reducing the
amount of waste their tent produces, through reusable cups and
utensils or usage of cloth instead
of paper napkins.
“Everybody loves the Grove …
and we want to impress among
students that the idea of a premier
tailgating location encompasses
a less wasteful tailgating experience,” McCauley said. “It’s not
just a great party, but it’s also respectful of resources too.”

OFF-CAMPUS
•The number of shuttles
working
Oxford
Middle
School/OPC Activity Center,
Oxford Conference Center
and Jackson Avenue Center
has been doubled.
•Two new parking lots with
shuttle access have been added on McElroy Drive (400
stalls) near the Oxford Post
Office and at the Northwest
Community College campus
(547 stalls) on Belk Road near
Baptist Memorial Hospital.
•All fan shuttles will begin
running at 12 p.m.
•Increased lighting, security presence and signage are
planned for all off-campus lots
used by the gameday shuttle
service
•People without parking
passes can still access the
Grove via University Avenue
or Old Taylor Road.
•Parking at the Whirlpool
Plant has been designated
gameday employee parking.
Use other available lots to
park in order to avoid postgame congestion
Freshman mechanical engineering major Donald Lorbecke approves of the freshly
adjusted policy after encountering several problems with
the initial policy.
“While I do not agree with
the policy at all, the adjustments made to the regulations will help with traffic flow
around campus. Maybe not
significantly, but better than
the last home game.”
On-campus residents and
residents who hold gameday
parking tags are the only people allowed to park on campus
this season in order to preserve
Americans with Disabilities
Act-compliant parking.
Astill said a committee
made up of representatives

Mission Mississippi is celebrating 20 years of racial reconciliation tonight at 7:30 p.m.
on the north side of the Square.
The event will highlight the
faith-based program’s success
in sponsoring and coordinating
opportunities for people of different denominations to form
relationships since 1993.
In addition, members of the
organization are partnering
with Fellowship of Christian
Athletes to promote Mississippi
Glowing for Christ. The 2,489mile walk across the state will
feature high school and college
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
members as they carry a 6-foottall battery-illuminated cross
through 82 counties in 82 days.
“The Ku Klux Klan burned
the cross,” said Lee Paris, a Mission Mississippi board member. “This is a lighted cross. If
you burn something, it’s shortlived. If you light it, light travels for millions of years. That’ll
preach.”
The illuminated cross will be
carried from Batesville into Oxford and through the Ole Miss
campus around 6 p.m., just be-

and Jim Greenlee will pray for
the city of Oxford, Lafayette
County and the Ole Miss campus before Paris speaks about
“following the cross.” Rev. Justin
McGuire of College Hill Presbyterian Church will conclude
the program, which will feature
special music by Andrew Gardner.
“The common denominator we have that’s stronger
than (race, politics or gender) is
Christ,” Paris said.
Mississippi Glowing will conclude with a statewide celebration and worship in Jackson on
Oct. 27 at Veterans Memorial
Stadium. For more information
about Mission Mississippi or
Mississippi Glowing, visit www.
missionmississippi.org or call
601-353-6477.

fore the ceremony begins. It will
also make an appearance at the
Texas A&M vs. Ole Miss game
tomorrow night, which Mission
Mississippi members hope will
make a visual statement.
“The university was very gracious,” Paris said. “We’re going
to be in Vaught-Hemingway
Stadium during the game, not
before the game. We want to
bring honor to the Lord, but
this will also be good press for
our state.”
Tonight’s event will begin
with a welcome from Mayor Pat
Patterson, followed by an invocation from Rev. Chris Diggs
of Burns United Methodist
Church and the personal testimonies of FCA’s Todd Johnson
and Ole Miss football player
Jimmy Potepa. Donald Cole

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from the Gameday Committee at athletics, parking, UPD,
the Alumni Association and
the Lyceum were assembled
to form parking guidelines in
order to preserve ADA access.
“The university is striving to ensure the campus is
always compliant, but more
importantly everyone coming
to campus on gameday will
experience a safer and more
enjoyable time,” he said.
While university officials acknowledge there is still room
for improvement, Astill and
the other officials are much
more confident about the new
parking regulations.
“As far as being comfortable
with the new plans, I am confident we are moving in the
right direction,” Astill said.
“This is new, and additional
adjustments will be made to
improve and protect the university and gameday experience.”

Chloe and Zoie of University Avenue: a tradition of Oxford
BY AMINA AL SHERIF
aalsher@go.olemiss.edu

Have you noticed the two mannequins quaintly perching on the
balcony of a magnificent Victorian house on University Avenue?
There is a history behind one of
Oxford’s cherished traditions curated by the Doty family living in
803 University.
Richard and Beth Doty, both
Ole Miss alumni, celebrate holidays, events and, most notoriously,
football and baseball games with
their two mannequins, Chloe and
Zoie.
Though the couple attended
The University of Mississippi,
both relocated to Jackson where
they met one another and moved
back to Oxford to start a home
and a family together in 1995.
“We wanted to have a family,
and Oxford is a wonderful family
town,” Beth Doty said.
The couple have two children,
Laura, 27, and Graham, 26. Both
born and raised in Oxford, much
of the Dotys’ extended family also
calls Oxford home.
The idea for the mannequins
began at the couple’s old abode,
where stood a large tree used at
Halloween to host a witch on a
broom. The large tree in front of
912 University has since been cut
down. Doty made the witch herself from odds and ends in the

household and was known for her
witch throughout the town.
When the couple relocated to
the Victorian house across from
Oxford-University United Methodist Church, the witch had fallen
apart. Dubbed “Zoie,” the first
mannequin was purchased in an
antique mall in Hazlehurst.
Doty grew up in Crystal Springs
nearby and paid the used-to-be
department store a visit.
There, she found scattered body
parts of an old-fashioned mannequin.
“I told the lady I could put the
whole mannequin together if I
found all the parts — she must
have thought I was totally crazy!”
Doty said.
After Zoie was purchased, she
was dressed for every holiday, football and baseball game. After years
of being out in the weather, Zoie
started to lose her hands.
“It became harder and harder
to dress her once she started losing
her hands,” Doty recalled.
Though she attempted to incorporate the mannequin’s missing
hands into her costume designs,
eventually it became impossible.
Her son then helped her find and
purchase a new mannequin.
“You would not believe the
weird stuff we saw!” Doty said.
Now, Zoie is accompanied by
a friend, Chloe. If you happened
to drive by the Dotys’ house and

Chloe and Zoie show off Ole Miss football gear at the Doty’s home on University Avenue.

noticed the mannequins this past
weekend, they were donning Chi
Omega T-shirts.
“It was for my niece, Elizabeth
Collins, who just pledged Chi O,”
Doty explained. Elizabeth’s sister
as well as their cousins are also
members of Chi Omega, so the
sister mannequins were honoring
a family tradition.
The mannequins have traveled
all over Oxford, honoring wedding announcement parties and
birthday parties with their presence.
When asked to recount a fond
memory of the mannequins, Doty
immediately recalled a story involving three students showing
up at her door. It was about two

years ago when two female and
one male student asked to scale
the stairs and take pictures with
the mannequins on the balcony.
“The young man was from New
York and was about to graduate,”
Doty said. “He had been taking
pictures of the mannequins all
four years and sending them home
to family while at Ole Miss, and he
wanted to take a picture with them
before he parted with the town.”
Beth said she did not initially
think many people noticed the
mannequins.
“After a while, I started getting
calls about the mannequins when
they were dressed up, and also
when they weren’t out there at all!”
Doty said she notices many

drivers stopped at the stoplight in
front of her home enjoy the mannequins and their seasonal outfits.
“It is especially funny to see students’ reactions to the mannequins
coming back from the bars,” Doty
said, laughing. “The students
are barely making it, then the
mannequins scare them because
they look like actual people!”
Where do Zoie and Chloe’s
many costumes come from? Most
of their outfits are her daughter’s
old
clothing, Doty said. Some of
Laura’s old homecoming gowns
and dresses have been passed
down to the sister mannequins,
and some of Graham’s old sports
clothes have been used, too. Many
of the costumes are handmade by
Beth Doty, and some are bought.
Many people call Doty suggesting or offering outfits for the girls
to wear.
“This past fourth of July, a man
called offering an outfit for one of
the mannequins,” Doty recalled.
He had in his possession his
grandfather’s old military uniform
from Connecticut, fully decorated
with a saber.
“I was hesitant because this outfit was the type you would find in a
museum!” Doty exclaimed.
Nonetheless, the gentleman offered his uniform, and when Zoie
was fully dressed, Doty recalled,
“she looked so real!”
Rob Pyron, recently elected Mr.
Ole Miss and Doty’s nephew, is
proud of what his aunt has to offer
Oxford.
“Her mannequins are an extremely unique part of Ole Miss,”
Pyron said. “She is always getting
the Oxford community in spirit —
it is what makes the town unique,
whether it is for a football game or
simply celebrating springtime.”
Doty plans on dressing her mannequins for this weekend’s game.
“Maybe it will bring us a win,”
she said.
The next time you drive by 803
University Avenue, don’t forget to
wish Chloe and Zoie good luck in
their daily efforts to bring the spirit
of Ole Miss to Oxford’s community and students.

Dr. Robert Khayat, former
chancellor of the University
of Mississippi, is returning
to campus this Friday to talk
about his recently published
novel, “The Education of A
Lifetime.”
This September Khayat
published his autobiographic
novel, “The Education of
A Lifetime.” In it the reader
will find a chronicle of nearly
fifty years of Khayat’s life and
much of his time here at Ole
Miss. He writes of both the
easy and hard times in his life,
but focuses mainly on his time
as chancellor.
Becoming chancellor in
1996, Khayat remained in this
position for fourteen years,
until his retirement in 2010.
As chancellor Khayat made
many changes to the Ole Miss
image that proved to be very
controversial.
“Most people want progress
but very few want change,”
Robert Khayat stated. “This
is true even if the change is a
clear improvement.”
By his retirement many of
the symbols that had held

the university back, such as
Colonel Reb and the Confederate Flag, had been eradicated. “The numbers of minority students has increased
dramatically” Curtis Wilkie,
Overby Center Fellow and
author of “The Fall of The
House of Zeus” said. “He basically went out and recruited
the kids in the public high
schools in Mississippi. I think
what he did with race relations is very important. He
was a very good steward of
the university.”
“In this engaging memoir,
he provides and unflinching
look at the challenges, the adversity, and the ups and downs
of a career that ultimately
transformed a great American
university,” best-selling novelist and former student of
Khayat, John Grisham, said.
This Friday’s conversation
at the Overby Center will be
centered on Khayat’s life and
his work here at Ole Miss. “It
won’t be a speech,” Wilkie
stated. “He and I will talk for
the first part of the program
and I’ll be asking questions.
At some point we will open
it up for the audience to take
this opportunity to hear from

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Robert Khayat speaks to members of the audience at a book signing in September.

him and to ask questions of
him.”
The event starts at 5:30 in
the Overby Center and will
be open to the public. This
will be an opportunity for students, faculty and alumni “To

be able to listen to a man who
speaks from the perspective
of more than fifty years as a
student, as a member of the
faculty, and as chancellor at
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Ole Miss will return to the
friendly confines of VaughtHemingway Stadium this weekend after a three-game road
stretch, which saw the team post
a 1-2 record. The Rebels (3-2, 1-2
Southeastern Conference) will
host No. 9 Texas A&M (4-1, 1-1
SEC) in a game that last year came
down to the final drive, which propelled the Aggies to a 30-27 win.
The matchup is the sixth alltime in the series with Texas A&M
winning all the previous games.
This game is the first of a sixgame home stretch for the Rebels.
“We’re thrilled to come back
home, but it doesn’t get much
easier with Texas A&M and LSU
coming in back-to-back weeks —
two top-10 teams,” Ole Miss head
coach Hugh Freeze said in his
weekly press conference Monday.
“It’s a very difficult stretch even at
home.
“It’s going to do us all a lot of
good to get back home. But again,

it doesn’t get much easier.”
The challenge will be stout this
week with the Aggies bringing in
a high-powered offense that averages 586.4 yards per game and is
led by last year’s Heisman Trophy
winner in sophomore quarterback
Johnny Manziel.
“I told the guys earlier, ‘If you
want a real challenge, play this
bunch,’” defensive coordinator
Dave Wommack said. “It’s a real
challenge this week.”
Manziel, who accounted for
320 yards of total offense against
the Rebels last year, will be the focus of the Ole Miss defense this
week, and although they may not
be able to completely shut him
down, containing him may be
enough.
““You’re not going to stop
him,” Freeze said, “but hopefully,
contain him and give us a chance
to be in it late in the game.”
Manziel has thrown for 1,489
yards this season with 14 touchdowns and has also added 314
rushing yards with three touch-

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Head coach Hugh Freeze and players prepare to take the field against Auburn last Saturday.

downs.
Although most eyes will be on
Manziel, 6-foot-5 receiver Mike
Evans will also garner some attention. Evans leads the Aggies
with 28 catches for 691 yards and
five touchdowns and is a physical
receiver the secondary will be battling with the whole game.

Offensively for Ole Miss, Freeze
and his coaching staff are hoping
to get back to being a balanced
attack after the running game suffered the past two weeks.
“We like to be balanced, but
teams are taking certain things
away from us that are making us
try to do different things that may-

be we’re not as gifted as a team,”
Freeze said. “We have to continue
to work on those things because
good teams make you do different
things than what your bread and
butter are typically.”
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and the game will be televised by ESPN.

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Moncrief’s presence important for Ole Miss offense

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Donte Moncrief catches a touchdown pass against Auburn last week.

BY CODY THOMASON
csthoma1@go.olemiss.edu

Double coverage. That’s what
Ole Miss junior wide receiver
Donte Moncrief has seen the majority of the time this season. It’s

lowered his numbers so far, but
when Moncrief sees a one-on-one
battle, he’s made opposing defenses pay.
Moncrief has 355 yards on 23
receptions with four touchdowns
this season, but it’s been an up-

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and-down year due to the different coverages he’s seen. In the
first four games, in which Moncrief was double teamed for all
of them, he averaged 60 yards
a game and had a total of two
touchdowns. Against Auburn,
however, Moncrief faced single
coverage and responded by more
than doubling his average number
of yards with 122 and matching
his season total for touchdowns
with two.
“It felt good getting my first big
game,” Moncrief said. “Now, we
have to start all over again. We
have to start making big plays and
put up a lot of points for the offense.”
Despite being double teamed
much of the year, Moncrief has
still been a big reason for the success of the Rebels’ offense. With
other play makers on the field,
Moncrief ’s presence often frees
up an opportunity for someone
else.
“When I’m double teamed, I
know one of the other guys will
win because it’s hard to play us
man-to-man on each side of the
ball,” Moncrief said. “That just
means that other people on this
side of the ball will be open.”
Overall, Moncrief has been

pleased with the offensive system
and its variety of options this season.
“You never know where the
ball is going with this offense, it’s
crazy,” Moncrief said. “We’ll do
a play action, we’ll run the ball,
we’ll throw deep or we’ll go short.
So with that the safeties rock a lot,
they don’t know what’s going on
it makes it easier for us to make
plays.
“Everybody is getting the ball,
you just gotta make a big play
when it comes your way.”
Moncrief has done just that,
catching deep passes of 39, 49
and 67 yards this season. This has
been huge for the Ole Miss offense, as it has struggled the past
two weeks.
“We would want that, but it all
depends on what teams are giving
us,” Freeze said of Moncrief and
the vertical passing game. “The
first few weeks Texas and Vandy
played high over him every snap
almost, and you can’t do that. But
if they give us a look where we
have that chance, certainly we’re
going to try that.”
Despite Moncrief getting more
single coverage against Auburn,
Ole Miss’ offense still struggled
mightily against the Tigers, giving

its worst offensive showing of the
season besides the 25-0 shutout in
Tuscaloosa the previous week.
“We’re not doing the small
things right,” Moncrief said.
“We just made some bad throws
and didn’t catch a lot of the balls,
that’s something we gotta get better at. Coach Freeze tells us what
to do and we just have to come
out here and treat practice like it’s
a game every day.“
This week, Moncrief will look
to put up back-to-back big games,
and he’ll do it against a struggling
Texas A&M defense. The Aggies
are 95th in the country in passing
yards allowed with 262 given up
per game and 112th in total defense, giving up 476.8 per game.
After a heartbreaking loss to
Texas A&M last season, Moncrief
and the Rebels have had their eye
on this game all season long.
“Knowing that we had that
game all the way until the end, it’s
just making us hungrier for this
week,” Moncrief said. “It’s our
first home game in a long time,
so we’re going to rock VaughtHemingway.”

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MANZIEL,
continued from page 16
cessful year overall, it was Manziel’s performance throughout
the year that caught everyone’s
attention. In route to the Heisman, Manziel racked up 3,706
yards through the air with 26
touchdowns and also added
1,410 yards on the ground with
21 touchdowns. Manziel surpassed former Auburn quarterback Cam Newton’s record of total offense in a season with 5,116
yards.
His domination of defenses is
nothing new for Manziel, though.
As a senior in high school, Manziel took over the state of Texas
with his scrambling antics going
for 1,674 yards and 30 touchdowns on the ground, while also
adding 3,609 passing yards with
45 touchdowns.
However, the 6-foot-1 quarterback wasn’t a blue chip prospect
coming out of high school.
Manziel was only a three-star
recruit according to Rivals.com
and his listed offers came from
Texas A&M, Baylor, Oregon and
Stanford, among others. After
committing to the Aggies, Manziel was redshirted his freshman
season and had to eventually fight
for his starting job the spring before his second season. It’s safe
to say, then first-year head coach

Kevin Sumlin made the right
choice.
With a Heisman Trophy under
his belt, the pressure now falls on
opposing defenses who are challenged with attempting to contain
the mania that is Johnny Manziel. This week, the challenge
falls on the shoulders of an Ole
Miss team who is coming off two
straight losses to Alabama and
Auburn on the road.
Freeze said his coaching staff
is “thinking out of the box” this
week in their preparation to slow
down the Aggie offensive attack,
and it’s likely you’ll see Ole Miss
use their 3-3-5 package they debuted last weekend at Auburn.
In that package, the Rebels had
junior linebacker Serederius Bryant and sophomore linebacker
Denzel Nkemdiche on the field
at the same time. It makes Ole
Miss more venerable upfront, but
it puts more speed on the field to
chase Manziel around.
“When you look at Manziel
there is a lot you have to do to
stop him,” Bryant said. “He won
the Heisman last year, so we are
just going to look into that and try
to stop what he has going on.”
Manziel has quite a bit “going
on” this season, both on and off
the field. After a memorabilia and
autographing scandal tainted the
offseason and stole headlines for
a while, Manziel shushed critics
by coming out on fire to start the

season.
In Texas A&M’s first five games
this season, Manziel has thrown
for 1,489 yards and 14 touchdowns and has also added 314
yards on the ground for three
touchdowns. Although Manziel
is typically admired for his quick
feet and scrambling skills, it is his
passing skills that many are taking
notice of this season, including
Ole Miss defensive coordinator
Dave Wommack.
“As a thrower, I think (he’s developed) a lot,” Wommack said.
“He hasn’t been running the ball
as much, numbers of plays and
yards for plays, that he did last
year. Not that he can’t, or won’t,
because he absolutely will, but I
think he is more accurate throwing the ball. And I think he reads
coverages better too.”
Ole Miss head coach Hugh
Freeze agrees that Manziel has
progressed as a passer, especially
since seeing him in person last
season.
“You notice he doesn’t mind
standing in the pocket longer,”
Freeze said. “He was a good
thrower last year, too. We were
hoping he wasn’t, but when you
face him live, you realized he
was. He certainly does not mind
standing in the pocket longer this
year. They probably worked on
that to minimize some of the hits
he takes and him developing as
more of a complete quarterback.

So yes, you can tell work has been
put in on him doing that.”
Although his passing skills have
improved, Ole Miss will not forget
the threat he poses on the ground.
“He is probably one of the best
I’ve seen from the standpoint of
alluding tackles that there is,”
Wommack said. “Manziel is so
slippery, he’s quick and fast.”
Sophomore defensive back
Mike Hilton most likely knows
this best, after having to spy on
Manziel during last season’s
matchup. Hilton had three tackles, two tackles for a loss and a
forced fumble in the game last
season.
Since last year’s contest, Hilton
has found a new home at corner,
so it may be someone else’s task
–– or several player’s task –– to
spy Manziel. As for Hilton, he has
some advice for his teammates.
“I just feel like you have to let it
come to you,” Hilton said. “You
have to be conservative. Everyone
knows how he plays. He’s actually played more in the pocket
this year, but he still has the ability to escape and make plays. We
have to sit back and wait for him
to come to us and make the play
when it happens.”
With tons of focus going Manziel’s way for the majority of the
game, the Rebel secondary will
also have a huge role in attempting to stay with receivers when
Manziel decides to improvise and

extend a play.
“It’s pretty hard to keep them
covered when he is running
around for a long time,” sophomore safety Chief Brown said.
“We’re working on that all this
week.”
The Rebels will be working
on it with sophomore defensive
back and former high school and
Southern Miss quarterback Anthony Alford mimicking Manziel
as the scout team quarterback in
practices this week.
“Anthony Alford is our best
chance,” Freeze said. “We tell
him to just scramble somewhere
and throw it and see if we have it
covered. He did a good job; that’s
as good as we can do.”
In the end, Freeze knows it will
take a total team effort to slow
Manziel down. The offense will
have to score a lot of points, and
the defense will have to do whatever they can to slow Manziel.
The Rebels have to take advantage of everything Texas A&M
gives them. If they can do that
and not make mistakes, Freeze
knows they’ll have a shot at pulling the upset.
“You’re not going to stop him,”
Freeze said, “but hopefully, contain him and give us a chance to
be in it late in the game.”
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football, follow @SigNewton_2 and
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Last year against Texas A&M,
sophomore Mike Hilton started
his first game of his college career at huskie and did a pretty
good job of being the spy on Aggie quarterback Johnny Manziel.
This year, Hilton will be a starter
at cornerback and will get the
task of battling another Texas
A&M offensive weapon in wide
receiver Mike Evans.
Hilton’s three tackles, two
sacks and a forced fumble may
not seem like the best performance. However, it was enough
to put the Fayetteville, Ga., native on the map as a constant
contributed on the Ole Miss defense, and he’s continuing that
good play this year.
“He’s a ball player,” Ole Miss
head coach Hugh Freeze said.
“He’s just a good player and he’s
going to continue to improve
wherever you put him because
he’s just a good football player.”
Hilton was moved from hus-

kie to corner earlier this season
because of the need for depth in
the secondary. The transition has
been seamless for Hilton, and
the sophomore said he gets more
comfortable every week.
“I’m more confident now,”
Hilton said. “I go into every
game (thinking) if I do my job,
we can win. I feel comfortable. I
feel like it’s the best position for
me.”
The 5-foot-9 corner hasn’t
been tested that much so far this
year, but he’ll have his hands full
against the 6-foot-5 Evans from
Texas A&M.
Evans has been phenomenal
this season, racking up 691 yards
on 28 catches to go along with
five touchdowns, and slowing
him down is crucial to slowing
down the explosive Texas A&M
offense.
“You just have to be physical
with him right before he gets in
the air,” Hilton said of Evans.
“He uses his body a lot, so you
have to get your body into him

before he does. If you know you
can’t get the pick, you just have
to separate his hands so he can’t
catch it.”
Hilton certainly doesn’t have
the advantage over Evans when
it comes to his height, and really,
he’ll often being going against
bigger guys than him. However,
the work he puts in off the field
has been beneficial into making
him into the playmaker he’s become.
“He commits himself,” Freeze
said. “If you come in here on
Mondays when it’s our off day
he’s gonna be in here watching film, studying, wanting the
coaches to spend time with
him. He loves the game and loves
being around it, and he’s athletic
so he’s adjusted fairly well.”
He’ll have to use his knowledge of Evans and the rest of the
talented Aggie receiving corps
to get whatever edge he can this
weekend.
If Freeze made one thing clear
about Hilton, it’s that he’s a ball

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Mike Hilton tackles a Texas player during a game earlier this season.

player, and ball player’s always
find a way to get the job done.

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football, follow @DavidLCollier and
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Four Downs: Texas A&M Aggies vs. Ole Miss Rebels
In this week’s edition of Four Downs, The Daily Mississippian football beat writers Matt Sigler and Cody Thomason and sports editor David Collier
answer four questions regarding the week’s matchup.
1. What’s the biggest
problem that is causing the
Ole Miss offense to stall
when it has scoring chances?
Matt Sigler (@SigNewton_2):
I don’t think there is necessarily
one simple thing causing the offense to stall. To me, it is a mix
of the lack of a running game
the team has had the past two
games and the poor execution
of delivering the ball to receivers.
Cody Thomason (@TheCodyThomason): The lack of a
run game. Either any run attempts have been stuffed, or the
Rebels are forced to pass and
become one-dimensional. Ole
Miss has to keep defenses honest in order to be more successful in scoring opportunities.
David Collier (@DavidLCollier): It’s the offensive line. The
past two weeks, defenses have
taken away the outside running
game, and the offensive line has
been torn apart by interior defensive linemen on inside runs.
On passing downs, they have
not protected Bo Wallace. Another game like the last two, and

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Ole Miss has no shot of outscoring Texas A&M.
2. What is the best thing
Ole Miss can do to slow
down the Texas A&M offense?
Sigler: Contain Manziel. He
is going to make plays no matter what, it just comes down to
limiting the big play. If Manziel burns this defense multiple
times, it could get ugly. Also, the
defense cannot get down after
a big play. They are going to
happen, especially up against a
high-powered offense like Texas
A&M.
Thomason: Somehow force
Johnny Manziel to commit turnovers. Ole Miss was able to do
this last year. If they can capitalize on Manziel’s sometimes-ill
decision-making, they can damage the Aggies’ offense tremendously. Manziel is the key to the
offense. If they can rattle him,
the rest of the offense won’t be
able to stand by itself.
Collier: Hope Johnny Manziel misses the flight to Oxford.
But seriously, the only way to
make sure Manziel doesn’t hurt

you is to keep him on the sideline. Look for Ole Miss to try to
control the line of scrimmage
against a bad Aggie defense and
go slower than normal. If they
can have some long touchdown
drives, they will not only wear
down the Texas A&M defense,
but they’ll also keep their defense fresh to chase Manziel.
3. Should Ole Mis fans be
worried about the football
program going forward after back-to-back losses?
Sigler: No. This is a program
on the rise, no doubt. Teams are
going to lose games; it’s part of
the process. A loss to the No. 1
team in the country on the road
and a loss at a formidable opponent in Auburn is not the end of
the world. Fans must also notice
that the stretch of games during
that time were extremely tough.
Thomason: No, because the
Rebels still are expected to finish
the season with a better record
than last year. It’s important to
remember that just two years
ago Ole Miss went 2-10 and
winless in the SEC. Rebuilds
take time and fans shouldn’t ex-

pect Ole Miss to be dominant
this quickly.
Collier: Absolutely not. Hugh
Freeze warned everyone there
would be ups and downs until they get where they need to
be. If they can steal a game this
weekend or next week against
LSU, they’ll be in great shape.
If not, they still have a favorable schedule to improve on last
year’s win total.
4. What is the biggest key
to pulling the upset over
the Aggies Saturday?
Sigler: Once again limiting
what Manziel does. He is going to make or break the game
for the Aggies, and if Ole Miss
somehow finds a way to limit
his production and gets their
offense back on track against a
Texas A&M defense who isn’t
particularly amazing, I think
this turns into a close matchup
that could go either way.
Thomason:
Finish
the
game. Last year, Ole Miss held
Johnny Manziel to two touchdowns, while forcing him to
throw interceptions. But the
Rebels allowed a fourth-quarter

comeback resulting in a loss. Ole
Miss has struggled finishing all
year, but if they can resolve this
problem, an upset is feasible.
Collier: Take advantage of
every opportunity. If Ole Miss
gets the ball in the red zone,
they better score touchdowns. If
Texas A&M lays the ball on the
ground, the Rebels better fall on
it. If Manziel throws a ball to
an Ole Miss defender, he better
get the interception. Ole Miss
has to capitalize on everything
in this game and limit their own
mistakes. If they don’t, it’ll take
a near-perfect offensive performance to hang in with the highscoring Texas A&M offense.

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Manziel Mania: Can Johnny Football be stopped?
BY MATT SIGLER
mcsigler@go.olemiss.edu

Is it possible to stop Johnny
Manziel? Most likely not. Is it
possible to contain him? Maybe.
The Texas A&M sophomore
quarterback and last year’s Heisman Trophy winner has been
demolishing defenses and putting up video game like numbers
for nearly a year and a half now,
and this Saturday, he will take the
field in Oxford to take on another
Southeastern Conference defense
in Ole Miss.
A lot has been said on ways to
slow Manziel down. Many say it
can’t be done, but right now, all
the Ole Miss coaching staff can
do is prepare and hope for the
best.
“You have to be multiple,”
Freeze said. “You can’t just give
them one thing.There are no bad
coaches in this league, and they
have tremendous players so they
will make adjustments if they get
a beat on exactly what you’re doing.
“We did have a good plan (last
year). We contained him for the
better part of three quarters, but
in the fourth quarter he showed
why he won the Heisman Trophy.
We’ll look at last year’s (tape) very

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Johnny Manziel celebrates after a play during a game earlier this season.

closely and use what we thought
was good, and try to mix in some
new stuff. We were able to create
some turnovers last year which
was big.”
Ole Miss did play Manziel just

as good as anyone did last season. Of course, that’s not saying
much. Last season against the
Rebels, Manziel threw for 191
yards and a touchdown and also
added 129 yards on the ground

with a touchdown despite having
three turnovers. The dual-threat
quarterback would go on to lead
the Aggies to an 11-2 record and
a Cotton Bowl victory, but the
most impressive aspect of it was

a 6-2 conference record in Texas
A&M’s inaugural season in the
SEC.
Although the Aggies had a sucSee MANZIEL, PAGE 13